Chenna

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chenna is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Poland it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 166◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 1.5K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈458K ●

across 14 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
299 ●

579K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 50 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

JaninaLatin · Polish●1.2M records
ЯнинаCyrillic · Russian●118K records
จรุณThai · Thai●1.1K records
চিহ্নBengali · Bangla●3 records
చిన్నTelugu · Telugu●3 records
잔나Hangul · Korean●2 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jeanna in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 7 more, Janina in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, EC Ecuador and 4 more, Янина in RU Russia, FI Finland, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Chinna in IN India, SG Singapore.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chenna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#3161,070,867295K rec.—12KChinna115
PL Poland#58230,753△5.8K rec.1 in 166231KJanina114
US United States—140,60990K rec.1 in 2.4K141KJeanna299
UA Ukraine#152106,865109K rec.—listedЯніна40
RU Russia#31998,85050K rec.—#295Янина138
LT Lithuania—54,191△9 rec.1 in 5054K—4
FI Finland—11,574△141 rec.1 in 48112KЯнина10
TH Thailand—10,8676.2K rec.—#89,116ชนวีร์65
FR France—8,065△3 rec.1 in 8.4K8.1K—3
GB United Kingdom—4,2763.8K rec.—4Jeanna58
EC Ecuador—3,744△38 rec.1 in 4.5K3.7KJanina8
LV Latvia—3,685△16 rec.1 in 5113.7KJanina5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi16K52%
  • 5.1K16%
  • Telugu4.9K16%
  • French1.4K5%
  • English1.1K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi16,27852%
5,06216%
Telugu4,91116%
French1,4395%
English1,0683%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chenna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3.6K records spelled Chenna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Čhenña, Čhënnā

  • Spanish surname914 records spelled Chenna3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, India, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chenña

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chenna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Alternative spelling of chhena.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mga, lenited form of cenna

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

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Chenna in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18911
19113
19212
19312
19414
195110
196111
197121
198141
199149

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Chenna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4.9K#599
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—4K#1,858
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—81#6,304
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—71#9,703
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198141—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—36—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#18,685
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#20,066
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197121—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 121 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chenna?
We estimate roughly 458 thousand people bear Chenna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Chenna have the most bearers?
Chenna is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled chinna.
Where is Chenna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chenna is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 50 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Chenna compared with other names?
In India, Chenna is the 316th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chenna” — the 316th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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